Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
LAW enforcement agencies are being thwarted in the war on terror and organised crime by a surge in highly-encrypted mobile phones. Codebreakers say they are involved in a constant battle with manufacturers updating their technology to stay one step ahead of hackers. Experts say police and counter-terrorism units are unable to extract vital information from the handsets, which have now become almost impossible to crack. Analysts working for police, the National Crime Agency (NCA), the Borders Agency and HM Revenue and Customs have also warned specialist mobile devices offering voice encryption are impossible to breach. Telecoms firms have introduced expensive handsets offering military-grade encryptions to the market. The Sunday Mail can reveal that one private investigator operating in the west of Scotland sold a consignment of these devices to an organised crime group earlier this year. We also found a seller in Birmingham flogging similar devices on classified ads website Gumtree. The unnamed man offered our reporter anti-tapping phones with six months’ encryption for £2200 and handsets with PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) encryption for £1100. He said: “I’ve got a load of phones. I’ve got a couple of prices. If you’re looking to make calls out, there’s a special unit […]
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